From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 27 17:16:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2FE37B424 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 17:14:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA49510 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:14:42 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from anwsmh@IPAustralia.Gov.AU) Received: from wf-137.aipo.gov.au(192.168.1.137) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma049485; Thu, 28 Sep 00 11:14:33 +1100 Received: from localhost (anwsmh@localhost) by stan.aipo.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA01204 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:14:32 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from anwsmh@IPAustralia.Gov.AU) X-Authentication-Warning: stan.aipo.gov.au: anwsmh owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:14:31 +1100 (EST) From: Stanley Hopcroft X-Sender: anwsmh@stan.aipo.gov.au To: Questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How does one upgrade 3.x with 32MB / to 4.x ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing to ask your recommendations upgrading 3.x hosts with 32 MB root parititions that are more than 70% full, to 4.x. 4.x uses more than 27 MB. I have had a lot of trouble trying to use /stand/sysinstall UPGRADE because the root file system fills up while the bin distribution is being copied and unpacked. Often the machins I upgrade are standalone or have no means of backup. In any case, I would rather do a fresh install if that were the only way of getting back data. Thank you, Yours sincerely. S Hopcroft Network Specialist IP Australia +61 2 6283 3189 +61 2 6281 1353 FAX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message